Night Dive
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sharkmasterbc
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I belive you are allowed to do a night dive as long as you are with a cert. DM or higher. Have you been night diving before ?
Do you have lights ?
Do you have lights ?
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Mgnau:
You are not required to have any night dive training, but it never hurts.
Make sure you dive the same location as one of your day dives so you are familiar with the terrain.
No I have not been night diving but I do have lights. Apparently where we are going there is a lagoon that is no deeper than 15 foot that offers excellent night diving from shore. I'm also hoping for a deep night dive.sharkmasterbc:
NickR
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I had some minimal training before night diving because it was part of my AOW, turned out to be one of the best dives I have ever been on.
Try to get as familiar as possible with your equipment before going on the dive, this will help your confidence. Carry a back up light, and most of all relax and enjoy yourself.
Take it easy
Nick
Try to get as familiar as possible with your equipment before going on the dive, this will help your confidence. Carry a back up light, and most of all relax and enjoy yourself.
Take it easy
Nick
smrtblnddiver
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NickR:
I fully second this one. On the trip I just did in Turks, we had one guy on the boat for our night dive who had never done a night dive. Even though the DM told him to stay with him, the guy decided to come with my buddy and myself. He dove almost directly above me the whole time and all I heard was the alarm on his computer go off about every 30 seconds. Needless to say, I was ready to shove the computer where the sun doesn't shine by the time we finished!
Night diving rocks. Almost more/as much as/ better than day diving. Hmmmm, i think, love em both. Have done a bunch of night dives since getting my OW in September and they are fantastic. Gets dark early here in winter so if on early shift and going out after work is always a night dive. Been fantastic, huge congers, loads of silver shoaling Pollock coming in for a look and life lit up in every wave of the torch beam. Then surface roll on your back and look at the stars. Best way of describing it? Surfaced after my first night dive and was asked what i thought about it by my buddy/instructor. One word - 'Immense' Get stuck in and dive at night is an amazing experience.
Definitely dive shallow on your first night dive. I did on mine and needless to say, I'm pretty glad that I did since I bobbed to the surface when I thought that I was slowly ascending! Keep a close eye on your gauges/dive CPU for depth and shine your light out straight ahead in a fixed position to get some perspective of your trajectory. Also, you should have 2 hand-held lights and a tank light. It's pretty cool though.
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Just my 2 bubbles
Night diving is great fun and with most operators you will not need any special certification to do it other than your open water cert. On night dives groups are often bunched together a bit more tightly so pay attention to where your fellow divers are to keep from getting finned or from finning anyone else. It is a good idea to stick near the DM since they are usually good at finding interesting critters for the group to check out. You should have a primary light and a backup light but you don't need anything too heavy duty for either task.
I think you will find very few operators willing to take folks on deep night dives. Depth and lack of visibility compound risk factors so most operators rightly prefer to keep night dives relatively shallow. Don't let that put you off though, there is so much to see and things are so interesting at night even on shallow dives that you are not likely to find yourself thinking about what you might have seen had you gone down deeper.
Have a great time!
I think you will find very few operators willing to take folks on deep night dives. Depth and lack of visibility compound risk factors so most operators rightly prefer to keep night dives relatively shallow. Don't let that put you off though, there is so much to see and things are so interesting at night even on shallow dives that you are not likely to find yourself thinking about what you might have seen had you gone down deeper.
Have a great time!
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